Covert

Covered; protected; sheltered. A pound covert is one that is close or covered over, as distinguished from pound overt, which is open overhead. Co. Litt. 47b; 3 Bl. Comm. 12. A feme covert is so called, as being under the wing, protection, or cover of her husband. 1 Bl. Comm. 442. In the colony laws of New Plymouth, children are said to be "under the covert" of their parents.

Covered, protected, sheltered. A pound covert is one that is close or covered over, as distinguished from pound overt, which is open overhead. Co. Litt. 47b; 3 Bl. Comm. 12. A feme covert is so calied, as being under the wing, protection or cover of her husband. 1 Bl. Comrn. 442.

— Covert baron, or covert de baron. Under the protection of a husband; married. 1 Bl. Comm. 442. La feme que est covert de baron, the woman which is covert of a husband. Litt. § 670.

fr. and eng. Covered; protected. Covert baron or de baron: under protection of a husband; married, v. Baron; Feme covert.

Covered, protected, sheltered, A pound covert is one that is close or cov ered over, as distinguished from ound overt, Whichis open overhead. Co. Litt. 476; 3 Bl. Comm. 12. <A feme covert is so called, as being under the wing, protection, or cover of her husband. 1 Bl. Comm. 442,

* 1. Covered, protected: as, a pound covert. See Pound, 2. 3. Implied, inferred: as, a covert condition. 3. Under the disability of marriage; married. Discovert. Unmai-ried, whether said of a widow or of a spinster. Covert baron. A wife: under the protection of her husband or baron,* q. v. Feme covert. A married woman: under the wing, protection or cover of her husband. * Coverture. The condition of a woman during marriage. Discoverture. Not subject to the disability of being married. Used as pleas in abatement, g. u, and in speaking of the rights and liabilities of married women generally. See further Disability; Feme, Covert; Husband.

Fr. & Eng. [Fr. couvert, from couvrir, to cover; L. Lat. co-opertus.] Covered, protected, sheltered. A pound covert is one that is close or covered over, as distinguished from pound overt, which is open overhead. Co. Litt. 47 b. 3 Bl. Com. 12. A thicket or other shelter (latibulum) for wild animals in a forest, is called a covert, (co-opertum, q. v.) Spelman. 16 M. & W. 569. A feme covert is so called, as being under the wing, protection or cover of her husband. 1 Bl. Com. 442. See Feme covert. Overt.

BARON, a wife so called, from her being under the cover or protection of -her husband, baron or lord.